Married father-of-three Simon Parkes, who represents Stakesby on Whitby Town Council, said his wife had rowed with him after revealing he had a child called Zarka with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen.

The 53-year-old driving instructor said he has sexual relations with the alien about four times a year.

["rowed" = UK English for "argued"]

It's notable that he represents Whitby, which you may remember as the town in Bram Stoker's Dracula in which Lucy Westenra got a secret night visitor of her own. Or as Francis Ford Coppola chose to depict it, wolf-fucking.

He's upset at people who think these beliefs in any way affect his ability to do his job, despite the fact that he thinks men in black are following him everywhere. It's survey time - if you agreed with the guy's politics, would you let a little thing like imaginary alien sex interfere with your willingness to vote for him?

This is the stuff that fascinates me the most. There are quite literally people who live in a completely different Universe from the rest of us. I have no doubt that this man firmly believes all of this.

I've always been curious to know what is different about some people that makes faeries and space brothers and Bigfoot become real creatures that they live with.

Given the choice, I'm not sure I wouldn't like to live among the people who can see the faeries instead of among us regular folk.

I can appreciate regular crazy. I think everyone is at least a little regular crazy. This guy is laboring under multiple delusions that are obviously impacting on his daily life, and I find it hard to believe that this doesn't impact on his work as well.

@arivalscientist ...but they have three children, THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Plus he has a government job so he's probably a good provider, and it's not like he beats her or anything... if she divorces him I'm sure he won't stay on the market for long... do they do mail-order marriages in the UK?

Somewhere out there is a documentary that features a young, soft spoken woman who believes that Bigfoot lives in the woods out behind her house. She sits on her deck and has her morning coffee and watches the Bigfoot family foraging. She says she once watched the male Bigfoot slaughter a deer. The creature even comes up to her back door occasionally and asks for garlic.

I can't locate a link.

<<edit>> Found it! National Geographic's "Is It Real?" Season 1, episode 2. Available on Netflix.

@Ranchoth@Gallen_Dugall I have a lot of sympathy for people with mental illness. I'm not a big fan socialized anything but I think it's in the public's interest that anti-psychotic medication be provided at the public's expense.

@Gallen_Dugall@Ranchoth@Gallen_Dugall The U.S. had a senatorial candidate coming out as having "experimented" with "Witchcraft and Satanic Rites" (apparently not knowing that those things are completely unrelated in their respective mythologies) and far too many people treated it as an actual thing, that could happen. Even now I know people who 100% believe that Witches (not Wiccans) are a real thing. I can't differentiate between screwing an alien or having congress with the devil on the spectrum of crazy.